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' J. A. SCRIVEN.

DRAWERS.

Patented De0,7,1897.

ATTORNEYS UNITED STATES Y PATENT FFICE.

JEREMIAH A. SORIVEN, OF NEW YORK, Y.

DRAWERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 594,910, dated December'7, 1897. Application filed April 19, 1897- Serial No. 632,732. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JEREMIAH A. SoRIvEN, a resident of the city, county,and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Underwear, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to nether garments,

and-has for its object to provide a nether garment which will snugly fita wearer.

My invention, although applicable otherwise, is especially adapted tosummer underwear, which is usually made of thin inelastic material whichsticks to a skin wet with perspiration and being inelastic tears orsplits when any considerable stress is put upon it. These and otherdifliculties are overcome by constructing nether garments according tomy invention, which will be understood by referring to the accompanyingdrawings, in which- Figure 1 represents a man wearing a nether garmentembodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a front View of the nether garmentopened out to more clearly exhibit the construction.

In the drawings, A represents a pair of drawers comprising an inelasticfront section a. This inelastic front section is united at the top to awaistbandpr waist-piece b. The inelasticsection a extends over the hipsof the wearer and constitutes the hip portion of the garment, extendingto the rear thereof and forming a part of the rear of the garment, andis shown in the drawings as extending over the hips of the wearer andlapping over the elastic section, which is below it, and covering alarge portion of his buttocks, being cut on a curve 0 and tapering to apoint at or near the middle of the rear of 'the garment below thewaistband. An elastic section or insertion is secured to the rear edgesof the section a and covers the buttocks and the rear portion of thelegs of the wearer. This elastic section may be in one piece or in twopieces cl 6, the essential feature being that it shall form less thanhalf of the garment-that is to say, that the front section of thegarment shall extend to the rear of the garment, so as to form more thanhalf of the garment, the

remaining portion of the garment being constituted by the elasticinsertion.

The legs and buttocks of'a wearer vary considerably in shape, accordingto the position taken by the person, and consequently the garment ismade stretchable at the places where the stress occurs, so that whateverstrain is put upon the garment is taken up by the elastic rear portionthereof. portion may be in one piece or in two pieces, as shown, and ispreferably made of elastic ribbed knitted fabric, as shown, with theribs f upright, as shown, so that the garment may stretch laterally.

It will be observed that the front inelastic section is divided to forma fly and that the rear elastic section is continuous or undivided. Iwould have it understood that in using the termselastic and inelastic Imean to convey by the term inelastic the fact that the portions of thegarments so designated are less elastic than the elastic portion, butthat they are not absolutely inelastic, as fabrics generally have moreor less elasticity.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure byLetters Patent,

a front section a of inelastic rnaterial extending over the hips of thewearefifid Iiavihg its rear edge out on a c iryep s unnoiumdin g thebuttocks, and a section of elastic material secured to the said edge 0and covering the bu ttocks so as to stretch when the garment is strainedin use.

2. A pair of drawers comprising an inelastic waistband, an inelasticfront section 0; extending around and forming part of the rear of thedrawers and adapted to cover a portion of the buttocks and a continuousrear elastic section constituting a portion only of the rear of thedrawers below the rearward extensions of the frontsections, the saidelastic section being therefore overlapped by the said extensions of theinelastic section, substantially as specified.

3. A pair of drawers the combination of a waistband b, an inelasticfront section a secured to the lower edge of the said waistband andextending over the hips of the wearerand forming part of the rearthereof, the lower This rear away from the lower rear edge of the waistband so as to impart to the upper part of the said inelastic section thegeneral shape of a tapering gore and an elastic rear section secured t0the edges of the inelastic front section and constituting with the saidfront section an undergarment having its front portion and part of itsrear portion inelastic and with an elastic rear portion constitutingpart only of the rear of the garment.

JEREMIAH A. SORIVEN. \Vitnesses:

GEO. E. l\:[ORSE, MAURICE BLOCK.

